RFID Explained 305
SecurityFocus has a nice column summarizing the last year's worth of stories about RFID. Of course, you, diligent Slashdot reader, have read about many of these already. But for your slacker friends that need an RFID education in one easy-to-digest article, here you go.
There's a war going on, (Score:5, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)
diligent readers (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, you mean the slacker friend who didn't spend his Friday afternoons reading frivilous websites, who managed to get that promotion instead of me. I'll forward him the link.
Slacker friends' education (Score:2, Funny)
Most of my slacker friends need an education period.
uh oh... (Score:2, Funny)
On the other hand, this will prevent people from theft, and quite possibly lower costs, or raise stock value, either way, someone benifets
Foolish man... (Score:3, Funny)
Read? No. Commented about? Yes!
Death of barcodes (Score:5, Funny)
When DigitalConvergence [digitalconvergence.com] 's CEO and entrepreneur extraordinaire J. Jovan Philyaw [digitalconvergence.com] hears about this, he'll start making free RFID scanners (CueDogs?) before you know it.
Big Brother? not necessarily. (Score:5, Funny)
Ever lose your cell phone and have someone call it so you could find it? Imagin being able to do that with any random item? superglue a RFID onto it, and walk around with a semi-portable RFID scanner. OK, not as great due to the limited range of the things, but you could pretty easily determine if the keys were under the couch or not.
Now, the sucky thing will be if (when) manufacturers build RFIDs into places that you can't get to without destroying the item or voiding the warranty.
So, we need an opt-out method for RFIDs, which may be as simple as a way to find the lil' bastards and plier them flat, but beyond the scare, there's promise:
telnet homenetwork : fridgeport
Brr! it's cold in here [45F]! Can I have your username?
> JoeBachelor
And your password?
> gotb33r?
Welcome to your Refridgerator/Freezer system!
>cd fridge
>ls
Directory of
Beer/
Beer/Shiner Bock (1)
Beer/MGD (5)
Condiments/
Condiments/ketchup package (13)
Condiments/mustard package (2.5)
Condiments/SoySauce package (1)
Condiments/Unidentifiable (5)
Condiments/mayonnaise (1) (warning: use-by-date 5 months expired!)
Vegetables/
Soda/
Coke (.5)
Mountain Dew (4)
non-caffeinated/
ActualFood/
lunchmeat_ham (1) (warning: use-by-date 1 week expired!)
cheese_cheddar (2) (warning: use-by-date is tommorow!)
End of directory. No healthy food available.
>man healthy
Sorry, you need to install the Mother or Health-Conscious-Girlfriend modules for these extensions
>make food
Unable to make food. Stop.
>exit.
Goodbye.
see?!!!!! see! this is my vision!
unrelated, I'm worried about
GriffJon@[ ]mail.com ['Hot' in gap]
hot in gap? what does that imply?
[1] That's a "Mall Rats" reference, for the rest of you.
Re:RFID explained (Score:3, Funny)
Brilliant! Consise! Wow.
And a newspaper is EXACTLY like radio, except you recieve it with your eyes, instead of with a tunable RC network with optional FM demodulation.
Am I expected to place my .. (Score:5, Funny)
You are obviously single (Score:2, Funny)
The thought of my wife doing that scares the living shit out of me.
Re:Am I expected to place my .. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Shielding RFID against security (Score:2, Funny)
Re:There's a war going on, (Score:1, Funny)
Re:There's a war going on, (Score:1, Funny)
Why worry about RFID clothing? (Score:3, Funny)
-Chris
Always look on the positive side... (Score:5, Funny)
RFID (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Interesting technology (Score:5, Funny)
More POWER:
"Attention Wal-Mart Employees and Customers, we are now going to perform the hourly RF inventory. You have 30 seconds to put on your aluminum foil hats..."
Re:Concerns - answered in follow up to article (Score:2, Funny)
I'd love to see the look on the guys face when he scans someone and it reports that he has on his person a set of Bridgestone tires, 13 brands of CD players, 2 refrigerators and about 1000lbs worth of miscellaneous food and clothing items.